{"product_id":"up-to-speed-9780819566980","title":"Up to Speed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorrosive new poems from a poet whose work challenges expectations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRae Armantrout's most recent collection of poems focuses on the phenomenon of time, both as lived experience at the start of the 21st century and as a stubborn mystery confronting physicists and philosophers. The poems in this book are polyphonic: they juxtapose the discourses of science and religion, Hollywood and the occasional psychotic stranger. The title poem, which appears in Best American Poetry 2002, leads off with a \"sphinx\" asking \"Does a road \/ run its whole length \/ at once? \/ Does a creature \/ curve to meet \/ itself?\" Armantrout's work, with its careful syntax bordering on plain speech and meticulously scored short lines, is always struggling with the problem of consciousness, its blindspots and double-binds. The poems whirl like shifting and scattered pieces of the present moment. They attempt to \"make sense\" of our lives while acknowledging the depth of our self-deception and deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819566980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 5.98w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/22\/2003 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rae Armantrout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52161299546293,"sku":"9780819566980","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d92c4a89-4315-4513-877d-07c889e99bf7.jpg?v=1768317720","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/up-to-speed-9780819566980","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}